Location: From Ravenswood go up WV Rt. 2 (River road) about 1 mile. The entrance to the cemetery is on the right.

Condition: The cemetery is large, well manicured.

The cemetery listing for the burials is located at B. M. Chamber's home in Ravenswood. He is Secretary‑Treasurer of the Association. He has records of lot owners, not who are buried.

(NOTE: The stones were read by plot, and
family name within the plot. Later in the readings for Ravenswood Cemetery,
the plots are defined with "===========" and a surname if the plot was
identifiable as such. Often it was not possible to say when or if the plot
stopped so there may or may not be a "end of plot" indicator "=========="
in this listing.

I did not finish reading Sections 7‑9 on
the south side of that road, but you can use Carolyn Miihlbach's
publication, "Ravenswood Cemetery ‑ Tombstone Inscriptions, May 1984" (see
NOTES, 3. for full details) to finish the search of this cemetery. Her
readings for sections 7-9 fill 40 pages.

There is an east‑west road that divides the left and right sides of the cemetery as you enter the front (North) gate.

Mary, wife of John xe "KOUNS:John" xe "KOUNS:Mary, Mrs." KOUNS, died September 6, 1849 age 50 years, 3 months, 16 days
John KOUNS, died February 22, 1872, age 24 years, 10 months, 18 days
James P. xe "KOUNS:James P." KOUNS, died July 18, 1869, age 48 years, 5 months, 17 days

Mary Louise, wife of David xe "MILL:David" xe "MILL:Mary Louise, Mrs." MILL, died December 22, 1878, age 83 years

(Possibly marker for David MILL, stone cutting is of the same size, shape and color, but stone is broken off with no name on it): born August 23, 1806; died April 16, 1880, aged 73 years, 7 months, 23 days

(2) Isabella xe "PARK:Isabella, Mrs." PARK born March 19, 1816; died January 27, 1897
Robert xe "PARK:Robert" PARK Died January 10, 1872, age 54 years, 5 months, 18 days

(2) John K. xe "PARK:John K." PARK, 3rd son of Robert & Isabella PARK born October 25, 1844; died December 27, 1862, aged 18 years, 2 months, 2 days
William K. xe "PARK:William K." PARK, eldest son of Robert & Isabella PARK "born July 31, 1840; died at Salisbury, North Carolina, May 5, 1865. The deceased entered the Virginia Military Institute July 1857. Graduated with high honors. May 1861 was commissioned 2nd Lieut. in Confederate Army. Served with honor in many campaigns. Was commissioned and acting as a Lieut. of a Corp. of Engineers when he sickened and died."

Jesse xe "HUGHES:Jesse" HUGHES 1750-1829 Indian Scout who died near this spot

(stone erected by Ravenswood Chapt, D.A.R. to the memory of Revolutionary War soldiers and descendants who settled in this valley)

Joseph xe "ROOL:Joseph" ROOL, born in Strasburg, Germany born May 14, 1783; died November 4, 1884
(An undertaker working in the cemtery said Joseph ROOL served in the French Army with Napoleon in France.)

(NOTE: That is all for the left side of
the road that divides, between left and right sides of the cemetery as you enter
the front gate divided by a road North and South. These includes Sections
1-6 and 9 but not Sections 7 and 8, being stones not read from the back end
of the right (east) side of the cemetery as seen after entering the
cemetery.

(NOTE: Mrs. Sue Miller of Walnut Street
had a history of the cemetery and the people in it. She also had cemetery
records of the old Ripley cemetery copied by US Records survey and typed by
the Ravenswood Chapter D. A. R. 1940. According to those who have used it,
the D.A.R. transcription of 1940 was not well done. Comparisions with many
of the extant stones show that sometimes the age at death was omitted or
shortened in the Perkins manuscript.

The cemetery lies in the Washington
survey which was sold by the children of Patsy xe "CUSTIS:Patsy" CUSTIS
to the Wells family. The xe "WELLS:____" WELLS
family sold the land to William xe "PROCTOR:William" PROCTOR
who gave the cemetery to the town. The Wells family had buried a person or
two in the cemetery. After selling the land to the Proctors, Wells moved to
Missouri. The land around the cemetery is still owned by the heirs of
William PROCTOR.

Graves found in the old part of the cemetery.

Margaret STEWART Wife of William xe "STEWART:William" xe "STEWART:William" xe "STEWART:Margaret, Mrs." STEWART, died July 26, 1878 in the 80th year of her age